| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 4B70.00 | Adiabatic Processes | | |
| 4B70.10 | fire syringe | PIRA 500 | |
| 4B70.10 | light the cotton | 4B70.10 | Put a small piece of cotton in a glass tube and push down on the piston to light it. |
| 4B70.10 | light the cotton | H-179 | A piece of cotton in a glass tube will ignite when a plunger is used to quickly compress the air. |
| 4B70.10 | fire syringe | H-5c | Three fire syringes are shown. |
| 4B70.10 | fire syringe | Disc 15-05 | Compress air in a glass tube to light a tuft of cotton. Slow motion photography. |
| 4B70.11 | match lighter | He-5 | A match head placed in a cylinder lights when a tight fitting piston is quickly compressed. |
| 4B70.11 | light a match head | 27-6.1 | Push down hard on a piston in a close fitting tube to light a match head at the bottom. |
| 4B70.20 | expansion cloud chamber | PIRA 500 | |
| 4B70.20 | expansion cloud chamber | 4B70.20 | Pressurize a jug of saturated water vapor with and without smoke particles. |
| 4B70.20 | expansion chamber | Hl-8 | A 1 L flask is fitted with a rubber bulb and a inlet for smoke. |
| 4B70.20 | expansion cloud chamber | H-89 | Introduce smoke into a flask attached to a squeeze bulb through a pitchcock. |
| 4B70.21 | expansion cloud chamber | H-88 | Put some smoke and alcohol in a stoppered flask and shake. When the stopper is released a fog forms. |
| 4B70.25 | pop the cork cooling | PIRA 1000 | |
| 4B70.25 | big expansion cloud chamber | 4B70.25 | |
| 4B70.25 | cloud chambers | M-22b.2 | Pump a one gallon jug with a bicycle pump until the cork pops out. |
| 4B70.25 | adiabatic cooling | Disc 15-04 | Pressurize a one gallon jar with a bicycle pump until the cork blows. Measure the temperature with a thermistor and computer. |
| 4B70.26 | adiabatic decompression | AJP 58(11),1112 | A laser beam is temporarily scattered when an air filled chamber is pumped down with a vacuum pump. |
| 4B70.30 | adiabatic heating and cooling | He-6 | An air cylinder moves a piston back and forth and a thermocouple measures the temperature. |
| 4B70.31 | adiabatic compression | H-180 | A thermopile. is constructed and put in the bottom of a tube in which air is compressed by a plunger. Instructions. |
| 4B70.35 | expansion chamber | H-181 | Directions for making a temperature detector to insert into a flask that will be warmed and cooled by compression and expansion. |
| 4B70.36 | measuring adiabatic compression | 27-6.2 | Temperatures of fixed amounts of gases undergoing adiabatic compression are measured. Diagram, Picture, construction hints. |
| 4B70.37 | adiabatic cycles | 27-6.3 | A thermocouple connected to a lecture galvanometer shows temperature cycles as air in a test tube is compressed and expanded. |
| 4B70.40 | Joule-Kelvin coefficients | 27-6.4 | A thermocouple measures the temperature change as N2 cools on expansion and H2 heats on expansion. |